Carmelo Anthony Blasts Denver Nuggets for Giving Nikola Jokic No. 15

Were the Denver Nuggets petty for this?

Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic was given No. 15 before he became the NBA legend he is now. That number of course belonged to Carmelo Anthony first, who said during the latest episode of his 7PM in Brooklyn podcast that it was a petty move by Denver to give it away.

“It was a petty maneuver," Anthony said. "It wasn't like, 'Oh, we got numbers to choose from.' It was like, 'Here, you got 15' … Now I'm gone now. So now I'm seven. Now seven is the new thing. I'm in the Mecca. I'm back. I'm in it. It's a god's number. So I'm not even thinking about 15. I'm just thinking, this is a chapter of my life… I didn't go to Denver for about two years after that, two seasons because of lockout and the scheduling and all that crazy sh-t, right? So now I'm seeing Denver 15. I'm like, ‘F--k is going on? 15?’...The disrespect in you offering that showed me that you just wanted to erase everything that came prior to that right there… But what I believe is that they gave him 15 to try to erase what I did… When you think of 15 in Denver now, to this generation, you [think the] Joker. And there's nothing towards that. It's just, it was two different generations. So that just goes to show me that y’all not past that moment. This is 2010. This is 13 years ago. So if you are, you are holding on to something that was 13 years ago."

This was a very open answer from Anthony, who shared his honest feelings on this interesting topic. 

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